How To Use Ceremonious In A Sentence
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She was unceremoniously dumped to be replaced by a leader who could win the election.
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Wilson also dispensed with the ceremoniousness hamstringing Boston's other lyceums, such as their practice of staging elaborate quasi-military "Banner Marches," which they sometimes even performed before military veterans.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School
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The latest crisis in West Indies cricket and the unceremonious sacking of the best WI talent is the ultimate insult to West Indians.
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His father now ceremoniously conducted Mrs. Penniman to what he spoke of as the banqueting hall.
The Wrong Twin
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On the surface, it seems the radio babblers have been unceremoniously shushed.
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German-French for “Madame la Vicomtesse,” and after many ceremonious bows, he drew from his pocket a dilapidated pocketbook, saying: “Che un betit bapier bour fous,” and unfolding as he handed it to her a piece of greasy paper.
Une Vie
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Bella knew some little girls in the house, but in a ceremonious way; Tom had formed no friendships among the boys at school such as he had left in Boston; as nearly as he could explain, the New York fellows carried canes at an age when they would have had them broken for them by the other boys at Boston; and they were both sissyish and fast.
Complete March Family Trilogy
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One night, Finn rocks a bit off and falls flat on his face, unceremoniously uncaught by an unwelcoming mosh pit.
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One night, at a New York dinner party in the mid-1990s, Coplans unceremoniously expelled the hostess from her own kitchen, quartered some oranges, added them to the chicken and recooked it.
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And not just because both teams were unceremoniously dumped out of the Champions League in midweek.
The Sun
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She slowly peels back her boa and unceremoniously tosses it to the side.
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There, the real weapons and armor of the Great Feihong hung - not the ceremonious and decorative ones in the Hall, although they too could be wielded and worn.
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Rocky nodded and unceremoniously tipped out the contents of the box.
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At least 6000 citizens had to ‘vote’ for an ostracism to be valid, and all the biggest political fish risked being fried in this ceremonious way.
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Team captain Susanthika Jayasinghe did not appear to regret her unceremonious exit from the 200 metres sprint, but appeared more worried about the controversies surrounding the athletes.
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The owner scooted over from doing his genial rounds of the table and scooped up the hapless moggy, depositing him safely but unceremoniously on the street outside.
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Putting on a hat can be a ceremonious act, an elegant gesture in the ritual of dressing.
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At the end of the aisle Chief Marcett waited, dressed in ceremonious white robes and shelled necklaces.
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Proud owners ceremoniously take their covers off the cages, unveiling their latest acquisitions and jostling for position, trying to place their birds close to others that will encourage them to burst into song.
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The exaltation of liquor, however, appeared only to intensify his characteristics: his face became more lugubrious and melancholy; his manner more ceremonious and dignified; and, erect and stiff in his saddle from the waist upwards, but leaning from side to side with the motion of his horse, like the tall mast of some laboring sloop, he "loped" away towards the House of the Lost Mission.
Maruja
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The man removed his felt hat, and tugged ceremoniously at a tuft of sandyish hair which ornamented his low forehead.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel
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I guess there was only one thing to do: ceremoniously raid the fridge.
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It was extremely unusual to have callers shown in in this unceremonious fashion, even if she had been rather unprepossessed by these particular callers.
The Beloved Woman
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They ceremoniously cut a piece of ribbon, declaring the exhibition open.
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There's a squealy axe solo unceremoniously tacked on the end, naturally.
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Two articles I wrote were unceremoniously dumped by both The Guardian and The Times, which put a dampener on my plans.
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Shortly after the coup d'etat that brought Qaddafi to power, he unceremoniously ordered all Italians to leave Libyan territory.
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I am inclined to believe that the 'dhole' is not particularly ceremonious, but will, when opportunity offers, and a meal is wanting, obtain it at the expense of the neighbouring village.
The Dog
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But when the clean-up was done, he was unceremoniously dumped.
Times, Sunday Times
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The music center, which is positioned above the shopping like a keystone connecting the two sides of the building, is wedged in unceremoniously, and visually lost, straitjacketed by the larger building.
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The funeral of Cataridge had been brief, but ceremonious.
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Manning's prime ambition, on the other hand, is to occupy the Red House, and behind the galvanised paling surrounding the south of the Red House, workmen are quietly and feverishly preparing for his ceremonious entrance.
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That feeling was unceremoniously dashed that evening when I found out about the chicken pox.
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Neatness, cleanliness and ceremoniousness are other ubiquitous compulsive character traits.
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Hugh, speaking now with an elaborate ceremoniousness of utterance significant of a struggle to suppress violent emotion.
The Brigade Commander
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Important papers should not be left in the outside pouches of valises that are thrown unceremoniously into the boot of a taxi.
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Both these machines had their heyday, but now they seem to be on their way out, in a very unceremonious manner.
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Unfortunately, I was clutching the side of the ride, nostrils flaring, eyes popping, and lips flapping unceremoniously.
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Now the one thing that will get you booted unceremoniously from any locale, except a gathering of the Aryan Brotherhood at a beerhall, is going on a drunken anti-Semitic tirade.
John Galliano, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen -- poison and poetry
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Wilfred set Dingo's box down with ceremonious dignity and untaped one end.
BABYCAKES
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There were always cream cakes and I would be brought mine ceremoniously on a plate.
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Ethelred smiles a dung-eating grin, then removes a lousy French sou from his purse and drops it ceremoniously into my cup, as if he wants a freaking jousting field named after him for his piddling contribution.
At the Juvenile Bubonic Plague Telethon
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She was unceremoniously dumped to be replaced by a leader who could win the election.
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On the night of their wedding, January lusted after his new wife, May, believing his forceful actions to be justified because of their ceremonious union.
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I parked the trolley and grabbed up the paper, dumping it unceremoniously on top of the counter, and started flicking through it.
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As MacNeice was to observe in 1941, ‘A Prayer for my Daughter’ articulates Yeats's nostalgia for a more ceremonious and structured past.
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She had been out-manoeuvred and out-run, to say nothing of her having been unceremoniously tumbled in the gravel, and her arrival was like that of a tornado — made up of offended dignity, justifiable wrath, and instinctive hatred for this marauder from the Wild.
The Southland
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When the market moved to Cocklebury Road from its town centre site in 1952 the bell was ceremoniously handed over and struck at every market since.
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They ceremoniously cut a piece of ribbon, declaring the exhibition open.
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They didn't find drugs or booze but they did find diarized admittances of the fact that I had sex with my older boyfriend and hid it: I was unceremoniously asked to pack my bags and leave the house.
Blog: I've just seen a face
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He took her hand and ceremoniously placed it in Cratyn's hand.
TREASON KEEP
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‘I wouldn't mind having Dean Ashton in my side,’ admitted Kevin Blackwell, the Leeds manager, after his side's four-match unbeaten run was brought to an unceremonious end.
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The case, which went unreported, had already been unceremoniously rejected in the High Court.
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In scenes more normally associated with ne'er-do-wells arriving at courtrooms, the couple were ushered unceremoniously out of vehicles by muscular security staff in through a back entrance of the registry office.
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In the re-match the next day, the Railways made an unceremonious exit.
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To be sure, there was much ceremoniousness and the superficiality that went with it.
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She was unceremoniously dumped to be replaced by a leader who could win the election.
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unceremonious dismissal from office
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IT was lovely, thought Mrs. Miniver, nodding good-bye to the flower-woman and carrying her big sheaf of chrysanthemums down the street with a kind of ceremonious joy, as though it were a cornucopia; it was lovely, this settling down again, this tidying away of the summer into its box, this taking up of the thread of one's life where the holidays (irrelevant interlude) had made one drop it.
Mrs. Miniver
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When the public tire of you, you are unceremoniously dumped, no matter how good the tunes you knock out.
The Sun
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Third, it gives us a golden excuse to fire unceremoniously half the one-day players and all the management.
The Sun
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made an unceremonious presentation.
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‘Ah, yes,’ replied Kierkegaard, unperturbed, stepping back with a ceremonious sweep of his arm, ‘I, however, shall.’
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He is unceremoniously carted around in a plastic urn inside a carrier bag which nervously changes hands between them.
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Kerry's high-flying minors were brought to earth with an unceremonious bang by a resurgent Meath in yesterday's opener at Croke Park.
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Which is why his protestations about his unceremonious exit from Newcastle being ‘ancient history’ have a hollow ring.
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I came off my line to close down the angle, but somehow managed to make contact with Cora, bringing her to ground, in what looked like an unceremonious challenge.
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And since the ashes of sacrifices burnt upon the altar of God were carefully carried out by the priests, and deposed in a clean field; since they acknowledged their bodies to be the lodging of Christ, and temples of the Holy Ghost, they devolved not all upon the sufficiency of soul-existence; and therefore with long services and full solemnities, concluded their last exequies, wherein to all distinctions the Greek devotion seems most pathetically ceremonious.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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Kenneth strolled about the town for awhile before returning to the tavern to shave, change his boots, and "smarten" himself up a bit in preparation for the ceremonious call he had dreaded to make.
Viola Gwyn
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Not the most ceremonious release for a fresh faced coin still cutting its teeth.
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They invite one another to play by a certain ceremoniousness of attitude and gesture.
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Expect a major change of location soon, of course: it seems that he has been unceremoniously retired from service.
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The Italians' unceremonious drop to fourth place is unheard of in the world of ice dancing.
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Numberless and numbered droskies were darting through the streets, carrying gayly dressed officers making their ceremonious calls.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life
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Wilfred set Dingo's box down with ceremonious dignity and untaped one end.
BABYCAKES
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Yesterday he was unceremoniously dumped.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was nothing unusual about groups of elegantly clad gentleman scuffling unceremoniously in order to place themselves at the head of a procession or to bag the best pews for a church service.
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Mishka had told him to expect ceremoniousness but to be at ease because no one awaited similar actions from a foreign guest.
Hokas Pokas
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In addition to More's ceremonious demeanor and courtly attire, Sir John More wears his red robes of office as Judge of the King's Bench, hardly the right outfit for a visit with his grandchildren, one would think.
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Unceremoniously walking up to Stefàn and grabbing him from behind, she wrapped her arms around his waist in a possessive manner and lustfully stuck her tongue in his ear.
Who Said It Would Be Easy
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His tunic and hose she rather ceremoniously burned on the hearth, holding her nose as she did so.
TREASON KEEP
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A disappointing trading update in March saw the chief executive fall unceremoniously on his sword a few weeks later.
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Of course, people would be free to engage in 'ceremonious' marriage; such an event, however, would have no legal (enforceable in court) consequences.
Bella DePaulo: Challenges to the Privileging of Married People, from Across the Ideological Spectrum
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my mother advised her children ceremoniously
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he was dismissed unceremoniously
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Finally, 13 minutes later, the two umpires walked ceremoniously onto the wicket and removed the bails, signalling the draw and a 2-1 series win for England.
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From the 13th century onward, tournaments became progressively less dangerous and more ceremonious.
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Juxtaposed with this is the idea that the blatantly violent removal of the badger from the sett and the unceremonious act of the diggers disturbs and changes nature irreparably.
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About a third of the way up the mountainside it came to an unceremonious halt, without so much as a sign or a barrier to mark the place.
EVERVILLE
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There was as yet no evidence of malice on the part of its crew: only a kind of ceremonious irreverence.
Dirge
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And Billy dances off again in newer glee, while the inspired musician is plunking a banjo imitation on his enchanted instrument, which is unceremoniously drowned out by a circus-tune from Doc that is absolutely inspiring to every one but the barefooted brother, who drops back listlessly to his old position on the floor and sullenly renews operations on his "chigger" claims.
The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10
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If they are verbally aggressive to staff they will be dumped unceremoniously in this room.
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He may have been unceremoniously ejected from the couture house he founded that bears his name - which last year filed for bankruptcy.
Times, Sunday Times
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No longer were social parties the old heraldic solemnities [Footnote 4] enjoined by red letters in the almanac, in which the chief objects were to discharge some arrear of ceremonious debt, or to ventilate old velvets, or to _apricate_ and refresh old gouty systems and old traditions of feudal ostentation, which both alike suffered and grew smoke-dried under too rigorous a seclusion.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
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Putting the flashlight down on the chair next to him, he pulled the painting off the wall and let it fall unceremoniously to the floor.
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The pandas will accommodate these requests by drawing outlines of temples in the sand, placing earthen lamps upon them and ceremoniously offering fruits and flowers while chanting the family's names.
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This is the sense of the word most relevant to our endeavor; this usage, which has some currency, stands in contrast to other common meanings such as being rigid, ceremonious, solemn, customary or not casual.
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She unveiled the picture with a ceremonious gesture.
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After I had given my consent to marriage the ceremony had become less ceremonious, tables were pushed back to the walls and food was set out as a buffet.
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But on that day in October when he came to Highboro, North Carolina, to ceremoniously award to Hi-T Composites a multiyear contract renewal, the Admiral was as ripply and bright as the Caribbean on a sunny day.
VELOCITY
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They ceremoniously cut a piece of ribbon, declaring the exhibition open.
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They ceremoniously cut a piece of ribbon, declaring the exhibition open.
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At the Stockbroking firm where I worked, many years ago, a Senior Secretary got absolutely "ratted" at the Xmas party and was unceremoniously de-knickered and, dare I say it, "bonked" on the Senior Partner ` s magnificent, leather topped mahogony desk.
The Ghost Of Christmas Past (2004 in fact)
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– He was unceremoniously shooed from the bar, to the uproar of all, save the two men at the table nearest where he’d been hiding.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Mnkyking’s Review Forum
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He unveiled the picture with a ceremonious gesture.
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Together the two teams digested 25 goals while scoring only two from own efforts to have unceremonious exits in the first stage - the group league.
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But even though he was unceremoniously deposed from office last year, could the mild-mannered leader really be capable of such deeds?
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Dr. Westbank offered the operating scissors to Mac to sever the umbilical cord, a ceremonious thing that Mac was completely unaware of, but he did it anyway.
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He unlocked the front door and Anna charged in, dragging another straggler behind her but slamming it --- unceremoniously --- in Bo's face.
BEHINDLINGS
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Rational Review
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Rational Review
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Putting on a hat can be a ceremonious act, an elegant gesture in the ritual of dressing.
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There was a squeally axe solo unceremoniously tacked on the end, naturally.
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In others, abortion was treated matter-of-factly, with the products of conception disposed of unceremoniously.
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The ceremonious opening of prizes is repeatedly replayed in our art class, as everyone breathtakingly awaits the signs of pay dirt in magical containers.
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She was unceremoniously dumped to be replaced by a leader who could win the election.
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Yes, but then I have to give up the fantasy that I am still a perky, nubile young thing in a respectable 34B, and accept the fact that some old Russian frau will unceremoniously stuff my lovelies into a contraption that looks more suited to carting around weapons of mass destruction than bosoms, and which forces me to accept that my actual measurements are more stubby than tall-boy.
Archive 2009-08-01
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His career rebirth following his unceremonious ousting from the legendary Black Sabbath was nothing short of remarkable.
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My tech "ambassadorship" ends on Oct. 3, drawing unconditional use of my free Samsung to an unceremonious halt.
Archive 2006-09-01
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But when it came to matching Saskatchewan's contribution of beef overstock to food banks, the province considered it for two seconds before delivering an unceremonious, ‘We're not getting involved.’
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She had hardly had a chance to finish her drink when she was manhandled by burly bouncers and unceremoniously dumped outside the door.
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Each time a whiny pop tune unceremoniously and semi-incongruously intrudes upon the soundtrack, we passively accept the meretriciously commercial reasons for the tune's existence.
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The door suddenly opened and the hellcat walked into the room, unceremoniously.
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an unceremonious speech
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Then, forgetting all his politeness, all his ceremoniousness, all his Japanesery, he takes her by the hand, forces her to rise, to stand in the dying daylight, to let herself be seen.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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But she had taken a shine to Antony, and when you put aside any consideration for the poor hare that had been so unceremoniously jugged, the meal, you had to admit, had been rather good.
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Now rumours abound that she is to be unceremoniously dumped for the next series.
The Sun
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The unfortunate gents are then unceremoniously interred in the sisters' basement.
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He was unceremoniously ejected from his slightly altered, safe Ashford ward by the massed vote of sitting borough councillors in favour of a previously unknown candidate.
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Louis XI, an habitual derider of whatever did not promise real power or substantial advantage, was in especial a professed contemner of heralds and heraldry, “red, blue, and green, with all their trumpery,” to which the pride of his rival Charles, which was of a very different kind, attached no small degree of ceremonious importance.
Quentin Durward
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The trembling, querulous voice should have been enough to shatter the ceremonious moment, but, somehow, it was not.
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Incidentally, Shaheed, whom Pillai considers his idol, had suffered a similar fate when he was forced to make an unceremonious exit from the game in his final Olympics at Seoul in 1988.
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The dot-com bust, the recession of 2001, and the corporate crime wave and accounting scandals of 2002 brought the party to an unceremonious end.
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Rational Review
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The unceremonious crumbling of the soviet style experiments with socialism has left the profession of Marxist studies under enormous pressure to seek a new orientation.
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The equestrian idol is led up to a church, brought up to the altar and blessed before it begins the ceremonious procession through the Great Entrance of the town square.
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We then watched as flock after flock of "sprigs" cupped and settled lightly among the decoys and squads of redheads tore over the bay and splashed unceremoniously among the blocks.
Chron.com Chronicle
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The last seven words contradict the ceremoniousness of what goes before: Lancelot is holding himself in and, as the strongest warrior present at the scene, daring anyone to contradict him.
Arthurian Glories Renewed
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All eleven episodes of Season One, including the 90-minute pilot, are dumped quite unceremoniously onto two two-sided discs.
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Joris Luyten It may be named unceremoniously for the hockey puck it resembles, but the palet breton tastes like a bit of heaven.
Merry Cookies
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Representatives of striking Metrobus drivers on Wednesday walked out of a meeting called to resolve the dispute between the drivers and the company, bringing the proceedings to an abrupt and unceremonious end.
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Unceremoniously, some number of thugs dragged me into an edifice and roughly seated me in a slight wooden chair.
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Suddenly, without warning, she bellyflopped, unceremoniously, into the wooden planter.
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Dr North ceremoniously raised his glass to offer a toast.
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So to anyone out there who has been unceremoniously dumped, take heart.
The Sun
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I had approached her with so little formality, I had received all her graciousness with so little apparent sense of her condescension, I had taken my seat, nearly unasked, so completely at my ease, and I had pronounced so unceremoniously the plain "vous," without softening it off with one single "altesse royale," that I had given her reason to think me either the most forward person in my nature, or the worst bred
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt
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He was unceremoniously removed from the list of members, for gross misconduct.
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Now he looks to be making an unceremonious exit from the Baroda Cricket Association as well which he has been ruling over like his personal fiefdom.
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It's not the most ceremonious way to launch the band's discography, perhaps, but it's a telling indicator that, after just a few live appearances, controller.controller have got people worked up.
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In short, they very unceremoniously treat the Parisians who believe in Gargantua as ignorant simpletons and superstitious idiots, with whom are intermixed a few hypocrites, who pretend to believe in Gargantua, in order to obtain some convenient priorship in the abbey of Thélême.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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I have found that almost any simple phrase of music or words repeated slowly and with a kind of ceremonious attention, enthralls a year-old child.
Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds
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Beth nodded, and unceremoniously snipped the loose ends with a pair of kitchen shears.
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Public ceremonial would be supplanted by royal ceremoniousness.
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I crammed unceremoniously into their car.
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With their massive ballrooms, twisting galleries, ceremoniously laid out kitchens and enviable furnishings, Chateaux were also the dwellings of European Kings and queens.
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Her grandmother had dressed her ceremoniously in a white dress with elaborate smocking, as if she were being taken to church or to a party.
DANSVILLE
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And, finally, such semi-civilised life abounds in a weary ceremoniousness.
First footsteps in East Africa
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Many say the biggest casualty that Bangalore has suffered is the unceremonious exit of former chief minister S M Krishna, who was the driving force behind Bangalore's explosive growth in the IT sector in the last few years.
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But if you left undone anything you wished to do, waiting for my opinion, and thinking your grief would then be lighter, be it without ceremoniousness or superstition, both which things are indeed foreign to your character.
Plutarch's Morals
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During service, Master Simon stood up in the pew, and repeated the responses very audibly; evincing that kind of ceremonious devotion punctually observed by a gentleman of the old school, and
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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He also aspired to the role of executioner, warning McLoughlin that if he was not gone in three months he would requisition a shareholders’ meeting to remove him ‘unceremoniously’.
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Despite the ceremonious statements of intent and unanimous decisions in Prague, the Atlantic Alliance is drifting apart.
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Bring out each item at a time, very ceremoniously, even if it is only an old stock cube or a rubbery carrot or such.
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She takes them and dumps them unceremoniously into the roaster, seasons the meat and puts the lid on.
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While Jacques Chirac hugged the other leaders present at the gathering, to British Prime Minister Tony Blair he reportedly managed only a ceremonious handshake.
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Every married woman must perform here certain ceremonious ablutions at regular intervals.
The Promised Land
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Putting on a hat can be a ceremonious act, an elegant gesture in the ritual of dressing.
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The multitude of figures restrained by the strict frames of architecture emphasize the rigid ceremoniousness of the scene.
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Accompanied by a local band and scores of poorly clad children of the nearby slums, the students were given a ceremonious welcome at the Telugu High School in Anjeneyar Nagar.
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He was unceremoniously shooed from the bar, to the uproar of all, save the two men he had been eavesdropping on.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Mnkyking’s Review Forum
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Half-past one on the dot, after my dad had returned from the pub, the joint of meat would be ceremoniously carved.
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The memorial's organization of form and materials might suggest a kind of natural, earthy, broad-sweeping and open Australianness in contrast to the ceremonious conventionality of old world edifices.
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A shrill beep sounded in the room and I unceremoniously erupted from the bed.
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They stampeded her on the Calle Rivera and unceremoniously held up Mr. North's impressive car before the hotel, while Jim Baggott, in an ancient silk hat and bibulously primed for the occasion, read an ungrammatical but fervent valediction.
The Fifth Ace
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The dinner was a relaxed, unceremonious occasion.
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There were plenty of those on the shore and I picked up a particularly pretty white one, made a vague wish about future prosperity, and ceremoniously placed the rock on the lip of the well.
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He was received with flawless, cold courtesy—the “ceremonious civility” which Washington had once described as tantamount to incivility.
Washington
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Putting on a hat can be a ceremonious act, an elegant gesture in the ritual of dressing.
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She's standing ceremoniously beside the chief, watching as innocently as a child at a celebration.
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The owner scooted over from doing his genial rounds of the table and scooped up the hapless moggy, depositing him safely but unceremoniously on the street outside.
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Quite a few were shocked to see Russia transformed into a second-rate country, treated unceremoniously by Western powers.
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I'm almost a bit embarrassed to say Heya because I rather unceremoniously borrowed Phreedom's name as a moniker, with her fully in mind when I did it, but not enough to decide against the 'heya'. * big grin*
Out With The New
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Ironically, before giving the speech, he sings, as a ceremonious prelude to the lynching, ‘O Death,’ a song made popular (in addition to being sung here) by bluegrass superstar Ralph Stanley.
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Chapel and Sunday-school were to me cruel ceremonious punishments for the freedom of Monday to Saturday ....
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If Cooper's departure from Covent Garden was a lunge for freedom, Wildor's was an unceremonious, inexplicable freezing-out.
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I have found that any simple statement about a familiar object or act told (or sung) with a kind of ceremonious attention and with an obvious and simple rhythm, enthralls a two-year-old.
Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds
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Louis XI, an habitual derider of whatever did not promise real power or substantial advantage, was in especial a professed contemner of heralds and heraldry, “red, blue, and green, with all their trumpery,” to which the pride of his rival Charles, which was of a very different kind, attached no small degree of ceremonious importance.
Quentin Durward
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They drank coffee and ceremoniously tipped the contents of the pan into a large casserole which went into a side oven.
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She had been out-manoeuvred and out-run, to say nothing of her having been unceremoniously tumbled in the gravel, and her arrival was like that of a tornado — made up of offended dignity, justifiable wrath, and instinctive hatred for this marauder from the Wild.
The Southland
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Koreans are generally courteous to the extent of being ceremonious when they interact with social superiors but can be very outgoing and friendly among friends and acquaintances of equal social status.
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Matthews 'gate, to follow Matthews' servant into the house without waiting to hear whether Matthews would receive him, to present himself at the door of the dim underground _serdab_ where Matthews lounged in his pajamas till it should be cool enough to go out, to make Matthews the most ceremonious of bows, and to give that young man a half-amused, half-annoyed consciousness of being put at his ease.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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After a decade of further triumphs, he moved to Paris; but after Italy became a national state, his body, too, was ceremoniously entombed in Santa Croce.
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After a few ceremonious waves of his arm the chief, with expert precision, sticks the needle into my bicep, a few inches from my armpit.
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Even though Lance may hoist a ceremonious champagne toast while cruising to victory on the Tour's last day, cyclists never should ride under the influence of alcohol.
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Ceremoniously she unclasped the gilded clasp, and took out the wrap of heroin that now contained a gram of South Gloucestershire brickdust.
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The announcement of Lukis' unceremonious dumping capped off a dreadful week for Nine.
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I grinned at him and ceremoniously picked up a French fry in my fingers and lowered it into my mouth.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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Fourteen years after dumping a man unceremoniously by letter, I decided to give him a second chance and let him back into my life.
Times, Sunday Times
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In spite of philosophy, I am rather ashamed of this unceremonious exsiccation of your financial river.
Selected English Letters
